In 1944, 15-year old Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz (George MacKay), a member of the Hitler Youth - compulsory for all Aryan boys since 1936. They are bound by the realization of the horrors being committed against the Jews. As Leyna tries to avoid the fate of black Germans at the time, Lutz too must struggle against the fate laid before him during the most brutal of times.